All Quotes

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
‐‐ Boz Scaggs

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'
‐‐ Charlie Haden

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
‐‐ Laura Bell Bundy

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
‐‐ Randy Bachman

I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.
‐‐ Gin Wigmore

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
‐‐ Billy Sheehan

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.
‐‐ Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.
‐‐ Mstislav Rostropovich

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.
‐‐ Klaus Schulze

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke. I was never really alone.
‐‐ Robert Maillet

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you're starting out in comedy, it's the audience that tells you what's funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.
‐‐ Dean Geyer

I literally came to L.A. like every actor does from this little town with this big dream, and I'm living in it now. It's mind-blowing.
‐‐ Tracy Spiridakos

I literally cannot remember a time when I was not asking myself what events in 'Star Wars' were like for Princess Leia. The good side of all this is that what looked like 'goofing off' or 'daydreaming' these many years has all turned out to be valuable career preparation.
‐‐ Claudia Gray

I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.
‐‐ Rob Kardashian

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
‐‐ Hannah Storm

I literally did it through hard work and dedication. People out there who think you have to have loads of money to do this sport... it just shows you.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

I literally don't think about Oscar.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.
‐‐ Kristen Johnston

I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.
‐‐ Ryan Seacrest

I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolutely petrified because you can't take anyone with you, and no other sportspeople were there. There was the head of the military, and then the Queen sat next to me.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

I literally hate working out.
‐‐ Olivia Munn

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.
‐‐ Max Greenfield

I literally have people go, 'Oh my God, you're the Pink Power Ranger' and I'm like, 'I do other things!' But, you know, it's so cool! I saved the world for a year.
‐‐ Erin Cahill

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
‐‐ Tom Morello

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
‐‐ P. J. Harvey

I literally order sushi, watch 'Law & Order,' and go to sleep at 9 o'clock every night. I'm a grandmother.
‐‐ Bella Hadid

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
‐‐ Jim Evans

I literally pass out when I see blood.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.
‐‐ Duke Johnson

I literally think I look bad in every picture.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

I literally think that if you're in this business, it has to be the only thing you can and want to do, because it's so hard. You have to be fully committed - and partially insane - to wake up every morning and be like, 'I'm an actor.'
‐‐ Lindy Booth

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.
‐‐ Rita Ora

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.
‐‐ Corey Feldman

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
‐‐ Sam Waterston

I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
‐‐ Safra A. Catz